Corel fit objects to a shape

Is there a way to fit mutliple objects to the shape of another? I know about using the envelope and power clipping, but that's not exactly what I'm talking about. Here's an example of what I'd like to do.

Let's say you have a star object. now you have the shape of the moon. I want to put a bunch of stars together in a pattern to make the shape of the moon. I've tried replicating the stars over and over to create a bunch, and then power clipped them into the moon shape, but they get clipped off on the edges, etc. I want to be able to layout the stars so I can see the whole shape, but put them all in the shape of the moon.

I hope that makes sense.